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September 17, 2008 at 12:19 PM
lionheart1982

Unable to access network shared drives

by lionheart1982 . Updated 17 years, 8 months ago

One computer (of course it HAS to be the President’s) on my network cannot to any shared drives on the server. I will type the path (e.g. \\SERVER) and nothing comes up. Typing a folder that’s shared (e.g. \\SERVER\Applications) brings up an error that says the user doesn’t have permissions and says “Incorrect function”. I can ping the server in question. I’ve checked and made sure the user has full control to the folder. Clicking on the server name in the Entire Network dropdown list results in an error saying “The Server service is not started” but I checked the server and it is, in fact, started. Nobody else seems to have this issue, and can access the shares fine. I have verified that she’s logged in to the domain.

Anyone have any advice? I look like an idiot to the owner of the company because we are trying to set up shortcuts to some server-hosted programs on her computer, and it’s not working.

Her computer was recently infected with the XP Antivirus 2008 Malware program (which was removed with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware) so maybe that has something to do with it?

Any help would be appreciated.

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